Happy April, SJSU SAASC blog readers! We’re glad you’re here. This month, we’re giving some shine to Left in the Bay (LITB), an archival history project that aims to research, recover, and retell the history of people’s movements in the San Francisco Bay Area. In their own words, the LITB team reflects on how “in

This month, SJSU SAASC is highlighting Berkeley-based community archive, Freedom Archives. Freedom Archives is “a non-profit educational archive dedicated to the preservation and dissemination of historical audio, video and print materials documenting progressive movements and culture from the 1960s to the 1990s” (Freedom Archives, n.d.). Freedom Archive has an especially rich collection on the Black

The Majazz Project is an archival platform and record label focused on reissuing Palestinian cassette and vinyl albums and field recordings, with a particular focus on sounds from the 1960s-1990s. Founded by Mo’min Swaitat, a London-based Palestinian actor, playwright, archivist, and filmmaker, the Majazz Project seeks to apply archival practice as a decolonial methodology and